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So my friend gets his mobile phone out (this was just before they became really popular and everyone had them) dials the number of the restaurant, and demands service from them. That got them moving temporarily. The second time we had trouble, he dialled the front desk again and asked to speak to the manager.
No tips that night.
That said, the service charge was based on the undiscounted price, so they were making a bit of an effort.
Like DG though, I felt massively underdressed on both occasions.
My husband once knew a millionaire who always had the shabbiest of clothes/accessories which goes to show, not everyone likes to flaunt their wealth!
Okay... What's going on here?
Maybe she *is* his wife, or a steady partner. Successful men are attractive to most women - not just those with an economic view of interpersonal relationships.
The latter category really do get wet and willing when confronted with the symbols of raw power. Money, cars, the arrogance of command... It works, at a very deep level, for a highly-visible minority of sexually-active women.
This is not the same as saying that she's a pro: I doubt that any of London's sex workers actually feel desire in what - for them - is just another paid transaction. And if she can fake desire well enough to fool an outsider to the transaction - you! - then she's a better actress than I've ever met; and if she's that good she's a courtesan who probably charges four- and five-figure sums for a f***. We are talking about a woman who would turn down a modelling contract from Elite or Storm.
You and I don't see many women like that, nor do we see many millionaires, in the bars and clubs and restaurants that we can actually get into.
So: what's the most likely scenario?
Something else entirely, and reassuringly mundane. He and she are driven, overworked and sleep-deprived, in a dehumanising hyper-competitive eighty-hour-a-week of work that has left them with no social life and utterly without human contact, affection, and emotional attachment. But they are still human, and we all need human contact - any contact! - and under that unending stress a woman under forty has an ally: her body will give her that extra boost of stress-driven lust and an all-too-genuine desire for *that * human contact which will always be available to an attractive female. Any man will do - and the confident, successful man will do better than most...
And him, with the social life of a lighthouse-keeper: how many willing women does he ever get to meet?
...But I wouldn't bet that he earned more than her. Yes, there is a gender pay imbalance, and women do not always assert themselves in pay and bonus negotiations; but women are better at keeping secrets, and that might count for more than arrogance in this recessionary climate.
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